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NKVD
(redirected from Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs)

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NKVD: see secret police secret police, policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures.

The Nature of a Secret Police


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NKVD
People’s Commisariat of Internal Affairs, USSR police agency (1934–1943) that carried out purges of the 1930s. [EB, VII: 366]
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